The African Contract

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Dawid van Wartt, Afrikaner, blames the West and US for the end of apartheid and his privileged position

Nabeel Asuty, Egyptian terrorist in Freetown, works for Abdul Wahab

Ambassador Marshall Bunting, US ambassador to South Africa, an avid birder

Patience St. John Smythe, former love interest of Hayden Stone, now in a relationship with Marshall Bunting

Dingane, Abdul Wahab’s major domo in Cape Town

Jonathan Worthington, amputee victim of the blood diamond war

Charles Fleming, CIA station chief in Pretoria, South Africa

Luke Craig, CIA station chief in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Farley Durrell, Sandra’s old boyfriend, a CIA deep cover officer.

M. R. D. Houston, CIA base chief at Cape Town

Bull Rhyton, friend of Van Wartt, former sergeant in South African Army

Elizabeth Kerr, intelligence analyst in Northern Virginia

Corneliu lay prone on the hard red ground using a thorn bush both for shade and concealment. Almost an hour had passed since he’d seen two men in a small Japanese-made ATV come over the western ridge, maneuvering back and forth to avoid the acacia trees, and approach the abandoned boxcar sitting on the railroad siding. That morning he had been wandering the dry savanna scrubland looking for birds to photograph. Last month Uncle Bull Rhyton had given him an old Nikon F camera with a telescopic lens for his twelfth birthday. Corneliu wanted to send pictures to another uncle up in Windhoek who was compiling a book on birds of the desert.

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